Carnarvon Wanderers F.C.

Carnarvon Wanderers
Full nameCarnarvon Wanderers Football Club
Nickname(s)the Wanderers, the Canary Birds[1]
Founded1885
Dissolved1887
GroundBryn Seiont[2]

Carnarvon Wanderers F.C.[3] was a short-lived association football club from Caernarfon in north Wales, notable for being the first club from a Welsh-speaking area to enter the FA Cup.

  1. ^ "Football". North Wales Express: 7. 28 January 1887.
  2. ^ "Carnarvon Wanderers v Carnarvon". North Wales Chronicle: 8. 1 January 1887.
  3. ^ The club name uses the English spelling for Caernarfon, even in Welsh-language media; see e.g. Herald Cymraeg, 28 September 1886.